"The exchange was the latest fallout after an Israeli bombing campaign in June, capped by a U.S. air attack on Iran's main nuclear enrichment and storage sites at Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan. President Donald Trump has claimed that the U.S. strikes "obliterated" Iran's nuclear program. After the bombing, Iran suspended regular IAEA inspections that are required under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, though it agreed during a September meeting in Cairo to resume them."
"Since then, the U.N. watchdog agency has tried to assess the damage and determine what happened to a stockpile of what it estimated was more than 900 pounds of highly enriched, near-weapons-grade uranium. But while inspectors have been allowed to visit some sites untouched by the attacks, the agency said last week that it had not been permitted to visit what last week's IAEA report to the board called "the affected facilities.""
Iran terminated the September arrangement permitting the International Atomic Energy Agency to resume inspections after the IAEA board passed a resolution seeking precise information on Tehran's enriched uranium and nuclear sites. Iranian officials said countries voting for the resolution showed disregard for Iran's goodwill and disrupted cooperation. An Israeli bombing campaign in June, followed by a U.S. air attack on Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan, led Iran to suspend routine NPT inspections before agreeing in September to resume them. The IAEA has tried to assess damage and account for over 900 pounds of highly enriched uranium but has not been allowed into the affected facilities, and reports a loss of continuity in nuclear material inventories.
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